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Laura, an art teacher, survives the first thirty days of the zombie apocalypse by barricading herself inside her apartment, counting canned food, and waiting for the world outside to fix itself. But when starvation finally drives her out, her first encounter isn’t with the dead, it’s with Kate, a hardened survivor who makes one thing clear: she isn’t here to babysit.
Thrown together by necessity, the two women forge an uneasy partnership as they flee a collapsing Chicago. On the road, they’ll find other survivors, uncover new dangers, and learn that the walking dead aren’t the only monsters left in the world.
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Echoes of a brighter dawn by drlingfaeri
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Dec 2025
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The Qiu household devours children quietly.
Shiyi survives by forgetting — his name, his past, the shape of kindness — until memory itself becomes something sharp and dangerous. Cruelty is administered in increments, patiently, until fear feels like faith.
Jiu does not arrive as salvation. He arrives as witness.
What binds them is not innocence, but endurance: a love forged in locked rooms, whispered vows, and the knowledge that some horrors never loosen their grip — they only learn new names.
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A teenage boy is forced to watch helplessly as his predatory uncle systematically grooms and abuses his sister, trapping their family in a nightmare of violation.
Content Warning: This is a seriously dark story.
It contains graphic scenes of non-consent, incest, and abuse. This story is bleak and does not have a happy ending. If themes of sexual violence and coercion upset you, please do not read. -
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When twenty-three-year-old Dani wakes up far from home, stripped of her freedom and trapped in a Colombian trafficking ring, survival becomes her only goal. but in the dark world she's been dragged into her survival relies on the whims of one woman. The cruel and brutal Mistress who operates the compound.
To Dani's confusion, her Mistress spares her from the worst, drawn to something about Dani she won't explain. As Dani navigates this dangerous new reality, she must determine whether her captor's protection is a twisted mercy or just another cage.
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The Shigaraki Detective Agency: Black Halloween by BNWA
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Dec 2025
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When private detective Shigaraki and his crew are tasked with investigating a kidnapped child against a background of escalating gang violence, they find themselves right in the middle of a brutal turf war between what remains of the Shie Hassaikai Yakuza clan and the Zaoshang-Ngai Hong Kong Triad, uncovering a bleak conspiracy orchestrated by an unseen, vengeance-crazed madman.
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- Part 3 of The Shigaraki Detective Agency
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The Press, the Rounds and the Coward by HenryCAL_95
Fandoms: Metro 2033 & Related Fandoms
10 Dec 2025
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The novel follows Mikhail's life, a worker in the Orekhovo Station armory. Mikhail is a pressman, spending his days reloading Dirty Rounds where life is defined by crushing poverty, debt, taxes and constant, grueling labor.
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Unable to meet the players' needs as he is, Caine takes drastic measures to accommodate their demands, and risks the Circus in the process.
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Outside the Initiative’s walls, Tyler lives under a false name and fading hope.
Convinced that Josh is still worth saving, Tyler sets out to bring him back. But the closer he gets, the more the lines blur between memory and manipulation, love and programming, freedom and the crushing truth of what the Initiative has turned Josh into.
Driven by love, guilt, and the memory of what they once were, Tyler begins to trace the crooked stencil back again, and the closer he gets, the more he wonders if the Josh he’s chasing is really the one he lost - or if he's been erased completely.
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- Part 2 of TMSI
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Beneath the house, they will think there's a mouse. by 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 (Dutch_Melrose)
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
08 Dec 2025
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A gentle search for berries in a snowy forest turns into a desperate flight for survival when Michael encounters a frightening mechanical presence. Just when a clear hero and villain emerge in a terrifying chase back to the safety of home, a final, chilling act reveals that not everything—or everyone—is as they initially seemed.
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AU of an AU. Molly, Lash, and Michael never made it off the island in Mea Culpa. A very grimdark game begins. Michael/Nicodemus if you squint. Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.
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- Part 10 of The Trials of Carpenter
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the old therebefore (when nothing is left anymore) by wisteriawoven
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
08 Dec 2025
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Fourteen years ago, Dutch van der Linde saved your brother’s life and offered you a home amongst outlaws and thieves. Since then, you’ve been robbing and fighting your way across the nation, all while caring for your reckless brother, John Marston, and trying to force down feelings for your partner-in-crime, Arthur Morgan.
But after a failed robbery in Blackwater forces the entire gang to flee, all hopes of freedom on the great frontier are lost. Danger descends from all sides, forcing you to confront the uncertain future and the regrets of your past.
Or, a complete retelling of Red Dead Redemption II from start to finish…
(This work is updated twice a month.)
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The Last Man Standing (All You Found Was Eternal Death) by LadyLustful
Fandoms: Highlander: The Series
07 Dec 2025
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Mac is the last Immortal left, the sole survivor of the Gathering. Not the winner, because that would imply having won anything, rather than lost everything, possibly including his sanity, and definitely including the man he still loves and thought a monster until too late.
This is a mix of tragedy and horror, with the love thrown in purely for the tragedy.
Rated for the psychological horror aspect of it and the threat to Mac's sanity, there isn't really even that much onscreen violence, let alone a single word of smut.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 599
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
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- Part 1 of pseudopearls' short stories
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 164
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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- Part 3 of MANEATER
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The Photographer by discoeffect
Fandoms: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4
23 Nov 2025
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A freelance photographer comes to terms with her troubled past as a slave in Caesar's Legion.
Mostly takes place during FNV.
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Parting, Meeting...at the Midpoint by Saitara
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
22 Nov 2025
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The phantoms of her and Link’s younger selves flicker once, flicker twice, are swept away as if dusted off a canvas. The faint moonlight returns. So does the stillness. So does the silence.
Her garden does not.
Zelda screws her eyes shut and tries to bottle her rising panic, begging herself to wake up. Please wake up.
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He thinks in another life he’d push his mouth to the top of Ghost’s head. Close his eyes and breathe him in, run his thumb under the thin skin behind his ear where grains of dirt lie now, where his hair is soft and short and thinks then about him buzzing it off in front of some dirty mirror somewhere, pieces of it falling about his bare shoulders.
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- Part 12 of These blue Hours / Ghost x König
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Elena has only been here four days. Yet it feels like some sort of hellish eternity. Haunted by the cries of the children she watched burn, she curls up into the sofa and resigns herself to staring at the ceiling.
But someone's watching her, too.basically, i'm treating the protagonist and the teacher like barbie dolls, and maybe they'll smooch.
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A deep story that will be shaped by the reader's choices.
What will the protagonist do to find his daughter in this destroyed world?
Will he be able to find her?
That is all up to you.
This is a choose your own adventure story!!!
Comments will determine how the story will continue or end. The paths chosen will have long-lasting consequences. The story is tailored by the choices made.
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- Part 1 of Stories From Nuclear Winter
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No Stan, I'm deaf, I don't know what my favorite music is. by I_Eat_Oxygen_tanks
Fandoms: South Park
16 Nov 2025
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Stan has been lonely, a new kid joins his class.
Something was strange about him.
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- Part 21 of South Park Shinanigans